It is Texture Tuesday once again, boy the week goes by fast. This week the theme is "Back To School" and we had to use two of Kim's textures on the photo. I volunteered to do Senior photos for my grandson Tyler and he asked if I could help his friend Austin out and do some for him. Of course, I was happy to do this plus I figured if Tyler had a friend along he might be more comfortable. My youngest grandson Brandon was my equipment and set up man, he handled getting the stuff out of the car and keeping track of props and handling the diffuser and reflectors. What started out to be the perfect day for shooting, overcast and not sunny, turned into a brighter than bright sunny day. It was not the best circumstances for trying to shoot portrait work. Most of the shots will need to be redone but we had a great time and I got some good experience at posing them for the photos. The photo of Tyler is one that is way too bright but I wanted to use it, poor guy is trying so hard not to squint but the sun was so bright that it was impossible. I used two of Kim's magic textures, Feb. Magic, I believe and Magic Scratches. I am taking the boys out again this week, in the evening, this time to do some of the shots over and I have ideas for some other locations. They came home after the shoot and were on the computer looking up ways to pose for Senior photos, I had to laugh at that. I expected them both to be way too uncomfortable to relax but they did a great job.
It will be fun to see all the ways everyone has interpreted Back to School. Check out the web site and see for yourself.
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Pat Mark's photostream

Pat Mark's photostream .

The Way We Were

The theme for texture Tuesday this week was "Movies". Pick a favorite movie and have the photo depict that movie in some way. I have many favorite movies but putting a photo together to give a sense of the movie was the hard part. First I thought of "Love Story" an all time fav, and that would of been pretty easy since I just shot photos for my niece's wedding reception, but I wanted more of a challenge. After much thought I came up with "The Way We Were". I have many old 35mm slides that my mother took during our growing up years, that have been put on disc, so I went thru them and picked out a few of my family from my childhood. I love the old photos of moms, they always stir wonderful memories of growing up. So check out the theme for this week to see what all of our favorite movies are. http://www.kimklassencafe.com/thecafe/

It's The Little Things

The theme for Texture Tuesday this week is "It's The Small Things". While it is hard to tell just how small this little teacup and saucer are, they are almost miniature.  The little cup is 2.5 inches across the the saucer is 4.5 and barely 3" tall overall. I loved it when I spotted it at a flea market sale down the road from my house. I also found an amazing old chair, all painted shabby chic white and suitably worn, just perfect for photos. The little cup is sitting on some of the old barn wood that I was lucky enough to be able to salvage from an old barn being torn down. I have plans for the chair too, hope to do some of my grandsons senior photos this week and I can just see him sitting in a wheat field in that chair or in a field of queen anne's lace out in the country somewhere. So join the gang over at the Cafe`, check out all the amazing photos for the weeks theme and see how we all interpreted "Its the little things".
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Butterfly

French Kiss texture website is giving away some textures. This is my edit for the contest. We were asked to use the texture Purple Prose, which was so generously given as a freebie. Thanks Leslie Nichole. I love the textures with the script on them